JOSEPH FRANCIS KUMAR D

PHP Technical Lead |Senior PHP Developer |Senior Moodle Developer | Senior Wordpress Developer

Date of Birth : 05th September 1987

Permanent Address : S/O A. David Thomas, 24 Indrani Nagar 1 st street, Madurai , TamilNadu.
Phone : (+ 91) 9677699289
E-mail : joeloyola.mca@gmail.com

Cover Letter

In my current role as a Senior Web Developer/Team Lead/Tech Lead. I have developed web-based
applications and products from design to coding and full implementation under the direction of the Vice
President with client.

By relying on solid programming knowledge as well as excellent oral and verbal communication I have
consistently produced terrific code within customer-set deliverables time frames. Due to my diligence and
hard work I have been awarded regular promotions and bonuses as a result.

I bring a Master Degree in Computer Applications along with regular updates and certifications. My
abilities to produce excellent code and to clearly communicate and collaborate with co-workers customers and
management have led to company successes.

I have 10 + years of Senior Drupal Web Developer experience and am committed to staying up-to-
date with all technological advancements. All of my qualifications make me an exceptional candidate for the
Senior Web Developer/Team Lead/Tech Lead position.

Tech leader experience tem size with maximum 30 members. Assigning tasks to members and
requirement gathering with written communication from client.

Conducting Daily Stand-up / Scrum meeting and tracking effectively. Attended client meeting and
requirements gathering.

Here are some highlights of my accomplishments as a Web Developer:

● Web development using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP with Drupal and Adobe
Creative Cloud.

● Translation of wireframes and rapid prototyping tools to accurate, working code

● Working closely with Project Managers and Business Analysts to produce accurate delivery
estimates and manage the transition from analysis through to design and delivery.

● Provide regular and effective progress updates to and work closely with Project Managers to
ensure the management of any delivery risks or issues.

● Participate in reviews and meetings and provide updates on project progress.

● Take responsibility for ensuring that risks and issues are identified and managed closely and
drive all stakeholders to deliver on time and to the required quality standards.

● Work closely with relevant teams internally to ensure alignment and coordination across
operations as part of the seamless implementation of existing and new systems.
Educational Qualifications

● Master of Computer Applications, Loyola College of Arts & Science With an aggregate of 62%-2010.
● B.Sc in Mathematics, 2007 pass out from Arul Anandhar College of Arts & Science with an aggregate
of 65.46%.
● HSC (2003–2004) in St. Britto Hr. Sec. School, Madurai with an aggregate of 70%.
● SSLC (2001-2002) in St.Britto Hr. Sec. School, Madurai with an aggregate of 81.5%.

Software Exposure

Operating System Widows, Linux and Mac OS X

Server-Side Language PHP 5 , PHP 7

Client-Side Language Javascript , jQuery, Ajax

Frontend HTML5, CSS3, Responsive Web Design, Bootstrap

Database Postgres SQL , Mysql

Web Technology REST API,JSON

MVC Frameworks Joomla, Word Press, Moodle 3.9, IOMAD 3.9.4

Joomla with virtue mart, Open cart, Word press with Woo
Ecommerce
commerce

Version Control Systems SVN,GIT,Bit Bucket, Source Tree

Web Servers and Tools Wamp, Xampp, JIRA, Visual Studio Code, Postman

Other PHP framework Cake PHP, CodeIgniter, YII, MVC

Methodology AGILE (Scrum framework), WATERFALL

Project Management Tool JIRA

Cloud Deployment AWS, Digital Ocean

Working Experience

Duration NOV 2018 –

Designation LEAD APPLICATION SPECIALIST

Company Name FUJITSU CONSULTING PVT LTD, CHENNAI

Website https://www.fujitsu.com/
Responsibilities:
❖ Implemented of PHP object oriented frameworks (yii framework) for Fujitsu DC Portal
❖ Working on fast iteration cycles and tight deadlines using an agile methodology
❖ Advanced knowledge of PHP running on Linux systems
❖ Particularly strong with JavaScript and CSS including Ajax , incremental page loading, etc
❖ In-depth knowledge of HTTP and other web related protocols
❖ Building frontend features using HTML/CSS in DC Portal
❖ Experience bin deployed project in Linux server
❖ Proficiency in OOP with a good understanding of MVC practices
❖ Strong knowledge of RESTful Web Services and JSON
❖ Ability to complete duties on time whilst maintaining a high-quality service
❖ Excellent knowledge of OOPS principles and design patterns

Duration OCT 2016 – SEP 2018

Designation SENIOR PHP DEVELOPER/TEAM LEAD/TECH LEAD

Company Name SPI GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD, CHENNAI

Website https://www.spi-global.com/

Responsibilities:
❖ Working on projects for E-learning Advance Publishing Company.
❖ Development and Integration of Web services.
❖ Working on Web-based projects related in core PHP.
❖ Working on PHP CMS and LMS, like Joomla, WordPress, Moodle.
❖ Leading and mentoring the team of 30 members.
❖ Participating in requirements design phase with customers.
❖ Handling customer communication for all technology needs.
❖ Achieving goals successfully before time line.
❖ Integrating and Unit testing.
❖ Working on documentation of various Processes.
❖ Server management and various deployment process handling.
❖ Monitoring development activities and reporting project progress.
❖ Managing, mentoring and providing technical guidance/support to project teams.

Duration NOV 2012 – OCT 2016

Designation SENIOR PHP FULLSTACK DEVELOPER/TEAM LEAD

Company Name EZVIDYA E-LEARNING PVT LTD, CHENNAI

Website https://www.chrysalis.com/

Responsibilities:
 ❖ As a Senior Developer, involved in improvements to the Thinkmate product for 4 years.
❖ Work with team and staff members to develop and design learning content including but not limited
to eLearning modules, user guides, assessments and surveys in Moodle system.
❖ Work with team and staff members to develop and design learning content including but not limited
to eLearning modules, user guides, assessments and surveys in moodle system.
❖ Consulted on Moodle, theme, course designs and deployment
❖ Built and deployed all courses over the first year of use
❖ Developed “moodle” based educational systems for high schools
❖ Developed a web portal for tracking a school, school buildings, student, teacher, attendance, course,
classroom, and etc. It was designed to handle one or more schools.
❖ Error logging and debugging in  Apache/Nginx web server environment.
❖ Worked in web technologies including HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery, Core PHP, MySQL,
Codeigniter, WordPress, Joomla,, etc.,

Duration AUG 2010 – OCT 2012

Designation JUNIOR FULLSTACK DEVELOPER

Company Name DATAVISION21 E-LEARNING PVT LTD, CHENNAI

Website https://www.datavision21.com/

Responsibilities:
❖ Develop, install, test, implement, document and maintain state-of-the-art cloud-based Learning
Management System solutions to meet stakeholder needs.
❖ Creating Moodle/WordPress plugins, themes and widgets.
❖ Upload forms on websites and track users' request, comment, and complaints
❖ Troubleshoot problems in code and maintain existing system
❖ Practice best and standard coding practices in all projects
❖ Assist in the designing, development, and deployment of interactive projects

Project Experience

Project - 1 RSS Learning

Customer RSS Learning
Project URL https://app.riskandsafety.com.com/learning/
Description
Main objective of this project is to allow for our various clients (campuses)
to have their own list of courses and users without seeing data from other
campuses.

This allows us to rollout RSS Learning to multiple campuses and allow for use
specific to their needs.

This provides a handful of benefits:

● Allow Campus Administrators to set up campus specific

configurations.
 ● Teachers at each campus will be able manage course work and view
completion data for their campus and userbase.

● Will be more secure as access to data will be limited based on

business needs.

● Users will be able to search and take courses that are relevant to
them, instead of seeing courses available for other campuses.

Role Module Lead

Responsibilities
❖ Implement multi-tenancy scalable Moodle architecture.
❖ Integrate with plugins when required, write scripts to automate
Moodle routines and processes.
❖ Planning and implementing API integrations with third parties when
required.
❖ Analyse business processes, and user requirements to establish
Moodle.
❖ Support Moodle/PHP implementations and resolve any technical
issues.
❖ Configured MOODLE-IOMAD deploy and properly configure the
application when there are new versions available.
❖ Developed Moodle Module / Block Development, Report
customization and Moodle web services development.
❖ Meeting with clients to discuss application design and function.
❖ Working with development and project managers to create an
environment of achievement.
❖ Directly managed a team of technical resources; performed all HR
tasks, including recruiting, hiring, and managing employee
performance

Operating System Mac OS X

Technologies Moodle, PHP, Restful Web services, HTML, CSS, Ajax, jQuery, JavaScript,
Bootstrap
Database MySQL
Cloud Amazon AWS (Computing service, storage services, Database services)
Tools GIT, Jira
Project Duration 12 Months
Team Members 10

Project - 2 DC PORTAL
Customer FUJITSU AUSTRALIA
Project URL https://www.dcportal.au.fujitsu.com
Description
Fujitsu Data Centre’s are world class facilities offering highly secure, highly
available and fully redundant environments to clients who require
exceptionally reliable facilities.

● The Portal is a web-based application.

 ● In that data centre portal, you can add Manage Users.
● Their authority and privileges, View dashboards that contain
current information on requests and the status of your hosted Data
Centre’s.
● Submit New Requests, Cancel and Modify existing requests,
Approve Requests, Access forms, reports, and other documents.

It also includes details on Administrator functionality of the Portal, which is

specifically aimed at Fujitsu Staff that perform admin functions and support
the Portal.

● Manage Users, their authority and privileges.

● View dashboards that contain current information on requests and
the status of your hosted Data Centre.
● Send Notifications.
● Submit New Requests, Cancel and Modify existing requests.
● Approve Requests.
● Access, add and delete forms, reports and other documents.
● Administer the Fujitsu Data Centre Portal.
● Resolve common issues.
● View requests and Authority Matrix when the Portal is down

Role Lead Architect

Responsibilities
❖ Understanding and prioritizing requirements from client meeting
❖ Writing and implementing efficient code and worked on YII
components.
❖ Distributing tasks to team members.
❖ Unit testing of the code
❖ Optimizing the codes
❖ Integrated YII component with other technologies through web
services.
❖ Multi-threaded coding experience, along with both asynchronous
and synchronous code.
❖ Conducting security audits to identify areas of improvement
❖ Working closely with other developers, UX designers, business.
❖ Monitor, guide, and rate our developers on their work performance
and coach them on their career progression

Operating System Linux

Technologies YII 2.0, PHP, WordPress, Restful Web services, HTML, CSS, Ajax, jQuery,
JavaScript, Bootstrap
Database MySQL
Cloud Amazon AWS
Tools SVN, Jira ,Citrix
Project Duration 16 months
Team Size 5 members

Project - 3 SOMMERLEARNING
Customer ADVANCE PUBLISHING
Project URL https://sommerlearning.com
https://www.advancepublishing-dev.com/sommer_learning/
Description ● Sommer learning is an e-learning platform featuring course
distribution content primarily for reading, writing and arithmetic.
● The website targets different users such as Students, Teachers,
 Parents, and Schools to provide open source educational content in
the form of books, video, audio, games, puzzles, activities, and so
on.
● Sommer Learning Admin Portal allows you to create users, create
groups, add a class, create content and assign content to the users.
● The project involved digital transformation of the fading
predecessor Advance Publishing (http://advancepublishing.com/). 
● The project included development of LMS, CMS and integration of
them into a single platform that can be accessed by stakeholders.
● Student enrollment and collaborative learning and training
resource management.

Role PHP Technical Lead

Responsibilities
❖ Integrated moodle component with other technologies through
Rest API web services.
❖ Writing and implementing efficient code and worked on
moodle customized plugin and components.
❖ Working with development and project managers to create an
environment of achievement.
❖ Enhancing development processes to provide continuous
improvement to the iterative development model.
❖ Provide assistance and routine consultation to users in the
development of systems and software
❖ Administering and Implementing, upgrading and maintaining the
LMS (MOODLE).
❖ Attend meetings/conference calls and E-mails to different groups,
documentation about the product,
❖ reports generation, verbal communication to understand the
requirement, interact with customer, to explain
❖ and convince vendor and end users and updating the status.
❖ Communicate with end users and Vendor Team to ensure we
design and deliver a solution that fully meets
❖ internal customer’s business requirements. Interaction with
team/end users & updating the status.
❖ Writing a functional document based on SRS. Performing Code
customization. Deploying releases in Dev,QA, Staging environment.

Operating System Linux

Technologies PHP, Moodle, Joomla, Magento, Restful Web services, HTML, CSS, Ajax,
jQuery, JavaScript, Bootstrap
Database MySQL
Cloud Amazon AWS
Tools SVN, Jira ,Citrix
Project Duration 15 months
Team Size 35 members

Other Project Experience

Technology Project URL Client

 Wordpress,HTML,CSS https://aischoolofindia.com/ India and US
Wordpress,HTML,CSS https://aiworldschool.com/ India and US
Moodle http://thinkmate.ezvidya.com/ India
Wordpress http://www.purpledrive.com/ US
Wordpress,HTML,CSS http://www.parityconsulting.in India
HTML5,CSS,Javascript https://www.chrysalis.world/ India

Other Responsibilities

❖ Be in charge of all internal and external communication for our company (Includes websites,
newsletters, e-mailers, collateral's, etc.
❖ Designed & Developed User Interface for in-house software development team on various proprietary
products.
❖ Maintains All Product Databases, get query from customer and update the query.
❖ Working with development and project managers to create an environment of achievement

❖ Enhancing development processes to provide continuous improvement to the iterative development

model
❖ Provide assistance and routine consultation to users in the development of systems and software
❖ Lead and directly manage a team of Technical resources; perform all human resources tasks, such as,
recruiting, hiring, and managing employee performance
❖ Assist Project Managers in developing implementation plans, including the scheduling of project
milestones
❖ Monitor, guide, and rate our developers on their work performance and coach them on their career
progression

Interests and Hobbies

● Knowledge Sharing
● Listening to music.
● Collecting New Software’s.
● Creating Websites and Learn new technologies.

Declaration

I hereby declare that the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge.

Joseph Francis Kumar. D